Couldn't cut the muuuuuustarrrrrd
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 04:02 (two years ago) link
Rolo McGinty remembers Pete de Freitas on the anniversary of his passing.
https://www.facebook.com/rolo.mcginty/posts/pfbid02Lx9ozR8uVgYLX6bAKKzaVvD5vsLTGCwmqqhLrQCr2s8tnpcAknkAfPTuVmay9R7xl
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 June 2022 23:30 (one year ago) link
Well well. Per Echo's social media:
We have just posted what I think is maybe the greatest live film of Echo and the Bunnymen over on our YouTube channel.Filmed live at Zeche Bochum, Germany, March the 5th 1983 during the Porcupine European Tour. Broadcasted by Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in the Rockpalast TV programme. 1 Going Up2 With A Hip 3 Gods Will Be Gods4 Show Of Strength 5 Zimbo (All My Colours)6 The Cutter 7 Rescue 8 My White Devil 9 Porcupine 10 Crocodiles 11 All That Jazz 12 The Back Of Love 13 Heads Will Roll 14 Heaven Up Here 15 Over The Wall 16 Do It Clean 17 Villiers Terrace 18 No Dark Things 19 A Promise
1 Going Up2 With A Hip 3 Gods Will Be Gods4 Show Of Strength 5 Zimbo (All My Colours)6 The Cutter 7 Rescue 8 My White Devil 9 Porcupine 10 Crocodiles 11 All That Jazz 12 The Back Of Love 13 Heads Will Roll 14 Heaven Up Here 15 Over The Wall 16 Do It Clean 17 Villiers Terrace 18 No Dark Things 19 A Promise
And here it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5krHYQ6SxkM
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 16 October 2022 01:49 (one year ago) link
first part of will's biography is 99p on amazon uk this month
― koogs, Tuesday, 1 August 2023 19:45 (eight months ago) link
ian on sky arts' Great Songwriters this week (last week). very fidgety and rambling but always entertaining.
likes cryptic crosswords, doesn't get Only Connect though.
odd choice of songs though (killing moon, dancing horses, proud to fall, unstoppable force)
― koogs, Saturday, 19 August 2023 20:33 (eight months ago) link
Steinbeck et al, they just wrote novels, they don't have to sing them...
I think the second volume of Will's bio comes out very soon.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 19 August 2023 20:40 (eight months ago) link
The way Will describes the current dynamics of the band makes me feel sad, he comes across as quite enervated by the whole business.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FoIifB2Ylk
― MaresNest, Friday, 1 December 2023 11:45 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1QFubPHyZc
― MaresNest, Thursday, 4 January 2024 17:27 (three months ago) link
i had that (glasto 85) as a bootleg, bought during my first week at university from a guy selling them in the students Union building. they do, iirc, it's all over now baby blue, she cracked, paint it black
(oh, track listing right there...)
― koogs, Thursday, 4 January 2024 19:06 (three months ago) link
the Crystal Days box has versions of those, and more, from Swedish radio. don't know if the glasto versions ever saw an official release.
― koogs, Thursday, 4 January 2024 19:09 (three months ago) link
I can't help it, that Peel Session song "No Hands" is the gothiest thing ever. Beautiful and amen. Listen to the bass. I'll never recover. That is absolutely the most beautifully goth thing I've ever heard. Oh my god, make it stop. That is going to fuck with my head all night.Too much goth. Too much.
― think you're a fookin' bat, eh? (Bimble), Saturday, February 7, 2009 6:25 AM (fifteen years ago)
bimble otm, but it's not too much. i just heard this song for the first time earlier this week, listening to the peel sessions collection from a few years back. when "no hands" came on i immediately tried to figure out which album it was from and how i had missed it before. but it's only on that session, i think, the january 1982 peel session, i think? it rules
― z_tbd, Saturday, 17 February 2024 23:04 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSd36N5rBg8
― z_tbd, Saturday, 17 February 2024 23:05 (two months ago) link
I had that Glasto / Swedish radio bootleg, too -- so good!
― three of the doctor's valuable bats are now dead (broom air), Sunday, 18 February 2024 01:21 (two months ago) link
There's only one, pitifully short and tangential Wild Swans thread on ILM, but I thought it worth mentioning here that I'm halfway through Paul Simpson's memoir and it's pretty enjoyable so far.
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 18 February 2024 01:51 (two months ago) link